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Personal life

Ben Bova
was born on November 8, 1932 in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania.In 1953, while attending Temple
University, he married
Rosa Cucinotta, they had a son and a daughter. He would
later divorce Rosa in 1974. In that same year he married Barbara
Berson Rose. Barbara Bova passed away on September 23, 2009.

Bova was an avid fencer in younger
days, and organized Avco Everett's fencing club. He is a cautious
environmentalist, but rejects Luddism.

Bova was the science advisor for the failed television series
The Starlost, leaving in
disgust after the airing of the first episode. His novel The
Starcrossed was loosely based on his experiences and featured
a thinly veiled characterization of his friend and colleague
Harlan Ellison. He dedicated the
novel to "Cordwainer Bird", the pen name Harlan Ellison uses when
he does not want to be associated with a television or film
project.

Bova is the author of over one hundred fifteen books, non-fiction
as well as science fiction. In 2000, he was the Author Guest of
Honor at the 58th
World Science Fiction Convention (Chicon 2000).

Recently, Hollywood has taken an interest in Bova's works for his
wealth of knowledge about science and what the future may look
like. In 2007, he was hired as a consultant by both Stuber/Parent
Productions to provide insight into what the world is to look like
in the near future for their upcoming film "Repossession Mambo" starring Jude Law and
Forest Whitaker and by Silver Pictures in which he provided
consulting services on the feature adaptation of Richard Morgan's
"Altered Carbon".

Bibliography

Collections

Forward in Time (1973)

Maxwell's Demons (1979)

E (1984)

The Astral Mirror (1985)

Prometheans (1986)

Battle Station (1987)

Future Crime (1990)

Challenges (1994)

The Future Quartet - Earth in the Year 2042
(1995)

Twice Seven (1998)

Exiles

Exiled from Earth (1971)

Flight of Exiles (1972)

End of Exile (1975)

Grand Tour

Bova's Grand Tour
series of novels is a fictional treatment of human colonization of
the Solar System in the late 21st
century. Bova addresses the issue of chronology in this series on
his website:

The internal chronology of the series isn't entirely consistent.
The recommended chronological reading order would be something like
this:

Powersat (2005)

Privateers (1985) (immediately
precedes Empire Builders, with most of the same cast of
characters, but with an alternate history including a still-extant
Soviet
Union, because it was written before the Soviet Union
fell)